Angler&#39;s book.



IINTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT B. OANTRELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANG LERS BOOK.

EECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,676, dated February 12, 1901.'

Application tiled February 2, 1900. Serial No. 3,701. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT B. OANTRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anglers Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to what are known as anglers books or casestol1old hooks and flies and usually made of such size as to be carried in the pocket.

The object of the invention is to provide a card-like holder adapted to be inserted in the fly-book of the angler either loosely and removably or as a leaf.

The accompanying drawings illustrate an embodiment of the invention.

Figure l is a face View of the holder. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same.

The device may be made of any suitable sheet material-such as paper, celluloid, metal, and the like-but eelluloid is preferred. It consists, essentially, of three connected and superposed sheets of the material, the middle one of which projects at its ends beyond the others and is corrugated to form two sets of open-ended pockets to receive and house the snells of the hooks. Means are employed for holding the hooks against falling out.

l is the longer corrugated sheet, and 2 2 are the shorter plain sheets secured to the respective faces of the sheet l, thus forming elongated cells or pockets 3, Fig. 3, to receive and house the shanks of hooks 4 and the snells 5, secured thereto. The plain or uncorrugated sheets are made shorter than the corrugated sheet, so that the mouths or entrances of the pockets will be the more accessible to the snells of the hooks in placing the latter. The snells fit loosely in the pockets or cells, and suitable means are employed to take over the hooks and keep them from dropping out. vSuch means may comprise, as herein shown, a spring-bar 6 to gently press upon and hold the hooks in place. It is not important to my invention, however, what special form of retainer is employed to keep the hooks from falling out.

My holder may be employed for either iiyhooks or plain hooks.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- I. A holder for anglers hooks, comprising three connected and superposed, rectangular sheets of stilf material, the middle one of which projects at its ends beyond the others, one of said sheets being corrugated to form deep,openended pockets to receive and house the snells of the hooks, and means for holding the hooks in place, substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for anglers hooks, comprising three connected and superposed sheets of stiff 

